Design a life: Ask, Believing you have already received.

1. Know what you want. This is an obvious statement. If you don’t know what you want then it really doesn’t matter what you get. An unfocused desire creates few results. On the other hand, a clear, definite desire creates a clear objective, something specific to work towards.

2. Decide on an action that you would expect to encounter FOLLOWING or AFTER your desire has been fulfilled. This could be a congratulatory handshake or receiving a check, or sleeping in your bed in your new home. The act or scene that you choose should NOT involve seeing your desire being completed, but should imply that it has ALREADY been completed sometime in the past. A single, short action or scene is better than a long, elaborate scene or many actions, as it is easier to focus. More involved actions or scenes tend to allow the mind to wander.

3. Get into a relaxed state of body and mind. Relaxation gives you access to your subconscious mind, and make it more receptive to the images you have created in the previous step. Relaxation allows your brainwaves to slow down ( the Alpha or Theta state), both of which are very receptive to guided imagery.

4. Replay the action or short scene decided on in Step 2, and do so over and over again while in your relaxed state. You need to come from a place of love when you are doing your visualizations. As you play the image give it as much sensory vibrancy as possible. Feel your imaginary body moving. Feel your imaginary hand in that handshake. In your mind’s eye, see your new bedroom around you. Note, you are not watching yourself take these actions, but you are actually doing them. You are the actor in your script. Little by little, make your chosen scene feel so real that you feel you are actually there. Each time you replay the scene this will get easier to do. The senses here should include not only as many of the standard five (light, touch, hearing, smelling, and taste) but should also include emotions. The essential element is to invoke as many senses as possible and to feel the emotions you would feel at that time too.

5. Once the scene does feel real in every way, allow yourself to drift off to sleep while in that feeling. This allows your subconscious to really take a hold of the image. When you wake up go about your day.

If, however, you are not at a point during the day when you can snooze for even a few minutes, then just stay in the feeling for a moment. When you are ready, open your eyes and go about your day. When you open your eyes, you may feel somewhat of a shock that the scene you were replaying was not real.

6. Continue in the feeling that your wish has been fulfilled. This can be easier to do after such a visualization exercise, because you now have a “memory” of the event. This is where faith comes in. It also aligns the subjective and objective minds (or conscious and subconscious).

1905 - 1972

Neville Goddard’s technique

"Learn how to use your imaginal power, lovingly, on behalf of others, for Man is moving into a world where everything is subject to his imaginal power," he taught.

 Neville once said that if he was stranded on an island and was allowed one book, he would choose, The Bible, without hesitation. If he could squeeze in more, he would add Charles Fillmore’s Metaphysical Dictionary of Bible names, William Blake, (“... Why stand we here trembling around, Calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?”) and Nicoll’s Commentaries. These were the books he recommended at his lectures.

As Neville said (THINKING FOURTH-DIMENSIONALLY):
“To the natural mind, reality is confined to the instant called now; this very moment seems to contain the whole of reality, everything else is unreal. To the natural mind, the past and the future are purely imaginary. In other words my past, when I use the natural mind, is only a memory image of things that were. And to the limited focus of the carnal or natural mind the future does not exist. The natural-mind does not believe that it could revisit the past and see it as something that is present, something that is objective and concrete to itself, neither does it believe that the future exists.

To the Christ mind, the spiritual mind, which in our language we will call the fourth-dimensional focus, the past, the present, and the future of the natural mind are a present whole. It takes in the entire array of sensory impressions that man has encountered, is encountering, and will encounter.

The only reason you and I are functioning as we are today, and are not aware of the greater outlook, is simply because we are creatures of habit, and habit renders us totally blind to what otherwise we should see; but habit is not law. It acts as though it were the most compelling force in the world, yet it is not law.”